Monday’s China Daily had a front-page article of interest to AsiaHealthCareBlog readers:  “Healthy Outlook for Medical Tourists”.  From their Beijing bureau, the article begins by stating “Healthcare services overseas are attracting increasing numbers of Chinese customers who are willing to pay for quality and privacy.”  This trend seems to roughly shadow the trend of wealthy [...]

The nutrition and health of a nation’s people sets the foundation for social and economic development. As in many countries with developing economies, China’s government is starting to place a special importance to the nutritional status of its children. This is being done through policy, research, and updated pediatric growth and feeding guidelines. Below is [...]

          While grabbing breakfast this morning in Beijing I happened across the following headline from the always humorous (although not always intentionally so) China Daily:  “Medical and Healthcare Investment Soars”.  According to the paper, 2011 is on pace to set a new record for inbound investment in China’s healthcare space.  Through August, investment has reached [...]

          Earlier this week, while on a flight from Seattle to Tokyo, I was catching up on some reading for future columns at Asia Times.  As part of this, I went over a recent Congressional report on China’s State Owned Enterprises (SOEs).  One of the Congressional committees I have closely followed for the last five [...]

            Last week I had the pleasure to sit down with Cole Wright of Merrill Gardens.  Cole is heading up the project at Merrill Gardens to develop their first eldercare facility in China.  Perhaps the most interesting dimension to our conversation was Cole’s emphasis on the challenge of actually implementing an eldercare operation in China. [...]

Part of what we hope to do here at the AsiaHealthcareBlog is go a bit deeper beyond a pure presentation of the opportunities in China for the biotech / pharma / medical device space.  While talking about the general opportunities available for companies in China, we want to explore in more detail the structural, cultural [...]

     Few issues are more critical to determining the success or failure of eldercare businesses in China than the role of filial piety in Chinese culture.  In a historical sense, the pressing cultural reality that many Chinese will not be able to provide the same sort of in-home care for their parents as the generation [...]